Gregory's ServerI just wanted to bicycle back and forth from work. Resent that I pretty much had to become an activist because I was being hassled by police for bicycling legally and they kept making up their on laws I was supposedly breaking. Opened my eyes to a lot of other problems that I didn't ignore, but my privileges kept me unaware of.
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I really, really don't understand the mindset of people who choose to block bike lanes.  @cainmark @marcprecipice @ekuber @jwz The one bike lane in my neighborhood has three parking spaces right next to it, but twice now I've seen all three empty with a car blocking the bike lane just ahead of them... I guess the car driver didn't want to walk across the bike lane...? I wonder if they can get tickets or if they face zero consequences for needlessly blocking traffic  @semitones I see this constantly with delivery trucks -- pulling over into an available parking space right in front of them is too much of a hardship. @jef posts examples of this kind of thing all the time.  @jwz @semitones I wish more people in this country understood "can't be arsed" because that's an exact description of their thought process. @jwz @jef Yeah exactly. Thanks for linking to Jeff's account -- this picture is almost exactly what I'm talking about (but with passenger cars) https://flic.kr/p/2pWTh31  @semitones @cainmark @marcprecipice @ekuber @jwz Reminds me of the situation in Germany. Here it's basically pointless to call cops in many cities, even if they see it they it there rarely are real consequences. Recently the public learned about unofficial police orders in many cities to go easy on car drivers parking illegally. Or the other time a driver faced no consequence at all for killing a cyclist because they couldn't possibly see them from within their oversized SUV at that angle. @cainmark @marcprecipice @ekuber @jwz like: |
@cainmark @ekuber @jwz same: https://xoxo.zone/@marcprecipice/112696235319317563